For many Anglos, mariachi means a band of strolling musicians that sounds better after a couple of tequilas in a Mexican restaurant. For people from Mexico, mariachi is a proud musical tradition that ...

The annual Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza continues this weekend with its signature events, group and vocal competitions and a concert featuring the renowned Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán “It’s ...

On Saturday, April 15, Mariachi Vargas will grace the YouTube Theater in Inglewood. The 126-year-old mariachi ensemble is on its “Mexicano Desde La Raiz World Tour” and will perform in Mexico, Canada, ...

With its roots buried deep in the past—arguably the early 1700s, in the campos of Western Mexico—Mariachi is a truly unique musical genre. Beloved the world over, but especially cherished here in our ...

The 14th Annual Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza is Texas’s largest and longest running Latin music event of its kind, attracting more than 20,000 people to the Alamo City for the week-long music festival ...

World-renowned ensemble Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán will join the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Selena Auditorium, marking its first appearance with the ...

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The Auditorium Theatre in Chicago will host a special performance by world-renowned ensemble Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, joined by special guest Lupita Infante, on Friday, September 12 at 7 p.m.

For the sole vocal finalist chosen to perform with Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán on Saturday (whether an elementary school, middle school, high school or college student musician), it's like winning ...

Amid the dozens of schools competing in this year’s Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza Competition in San Antonio, one prominent school band program decided to forego the 2024 event due to an “unfortunate ...

The first incarnation of the group Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán began in 1898 as a quartet, and over the decades (and into the 21st century) the ensemble would become one of the most important in ...